JDK-8232008 and JDK-8232009 tried to match interpreter, c1 and c2 load barrier logic, but still not ideal. Because, the decisions, such as, if LRB is needed, or what kind of barrier, are still scattered and duplicated in each barrier, which is hard to maintain and could easily cause mismatch again.

I would like to add following three methods in SBS to centralize the decision making:

  static bool need_load_reference_barrier(DecoratorSet decorators, BasicType type);
  static bool use_native_load_reference_barrier(DecoratorSet decorators, BasicType type);
  static bool need_keep_alive_barrier(DecoratorSet decorators, BasicType type);